The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED

Translator: Sofie Paisley Reviewer: Anders Finn Jørgensen

Seven years ago, a student came to me and asked me to invest in his company.

For syv år siden, blev jeg kontaktet af en studerende, der bad mig investere i hans firma.

He said, "I'm working with three friends,

Han sagde: "Jeg arbejder med tre venner,

and we're going to try to disrupt an industry by selling stuff online."

og vi vil forsøge at lave "disruption" indenfor en industri ved at sælge ting online"

And I said, "OK, you guys spent the whole summer on this, right?"

Jeg svarede: "OK, I har så brugt sommeren på det her?"

"No, we all took internships just in case it doesn't work out."

"Nej, vi har været i praktik, hvis nu det ikke lykkes."

"All right, but you're going to go in full time once you graduate."

"Men I har tænkt jer at arbejde på det fuld tid, når I er færdiguddannede?"

"Not exactly. We've all lined up backup jobs."

"Nej. Vi har allesammen skaffet os jobs."

Six months go by,

Seks måneder går,

it's the day before the company launches,

det er dagen før firmaet skal lanceres,

and there is still not a functioning website.

og der er stadig ikke en fungerende hjemmeside.

"You guys realize, the entire company is a website.

"Altså, I er klar over, at firmaet er en hjemmeside?

That's literally all it is."

Det er bogstaveligt talt alt det er."

So I obviously declined to invest.

Så, af indlysende grunde afslog jeg at investere.

And they ended up naming the company Warby Parker.

Og de endte med at kalde firmaet Warby Parker.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

They sell glasses online.

De sælger briller online.

They were recently recognized as the world's most innovative company

De blev for nyligt anerkendt, som verdens mest innovative firma

and valued at over a billion dollars.

og vurderet til over en milliard dollars.

And now? My wife handles our investments.

Så nu, er det min kone der styrer investeringerne.

Why was I so wrong?

Hvorfor tog jeg så meget fejl?

To find out, I've been studying people that I come to call "originals."

For at finde svaret, har jeg studeret folk som jeg kalder "originaler."

Originals are nonconformists,

Originaler er anderledes,

people who not only have new ideas

folk der får nye ideer

but take action to champion them.

og desuden kæmper for dem.

They are people who stand out and speak up.

Det er folk, der skiller sig ud og råber op.

Originals drive creativity and change in the world.

Originaler driver kreativitet og forandring i verden.

They're the people you want to bet on.

De er folkene du vil satse på.

And they look nothing like I expected.

Og de er helt anderledes end jeg forventede.

I want to show you today three things I've learned

I dag vil jeg vise jer tre ting jeg har lært

about recognizing originals

om genkendelse af originaler

and becoming a little bit more like them.

og hvordan man bliver lidt mere som dem.

So the first reason that I passed on Warby Parker

Første grund til at jeg afslog Warby Parker var

was they were really slow getting off the ground.

at de var lang tid om at komme i luften.

Now, you are all intimately familiar with the mind of a procrastinator.

I kender alle indgående mentaliteten hos en overspringsperson.

Well, I have a confession for you. I'm the opposite. I'm a precrastinator.

Og jeg har en indrømmelse til jer. Jeg er modsætningen. En forspringsperson.

Yes, that's an actual term.

Ja, betegnelsen findes.

You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline

Kender du panikken, du føler få timer inden en stor deadline,

when you haven't done anything yet.

når du ikke har lavet noget endnu.

I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

Den følelse får jeg, bare et par måneder i forvejen.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

So this started early: when I was a kid, I took Nintendo games very seriously.

Det begyndte tidligt; da jeg var barn, tog jeg Nintendo spil meget seriøst.

I would wake up at 5am,

Jeg vågnede klokken fem,

start playing and not stop until I had mastered them.

gik i gang med at spille non-stop indtil jeg mestrede spillene.

Eventually it got so out of hand that a local newspaper came

Efterhånden kom det så langt ud at en lokalavis kom forbi

and did a story on the dark side of Nintendo, starring me.

og lavede en historie om bagsiden af Nintendo, med mig som stjernen.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

(Applause)

(Applaus)

Since then, I have traded hair for teeth.

Siden da, har jeg byttet hår for tænder.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

But this served me well in college,

Men det gavnede mig på universitet,

because I finished my senior thesis four months before the deadline.

fordi jeg færdiggjorde min afgangsopgave fire måneder inden deadline.

And I was proud of that, until a few years ago.

Og det var jeg stolt af, indtil for et par år siden.

I had a student named Jihae, who came to me and said,

Jeg havde en studerende, der hed Jihae, som kom til mig og sagde,

"I have my most creative ideas when I'm procrastinating."

"Jeg får mine mest kreative ideer når jeg laver overspringshandlinger."

And I was like, "That's cute, where are the four papers you owe me?"

Min reaktion var: "Det er da sødt, hvad med de fire opgaver du skylder mig?"

(Laughter)

(Latter)

No, she was one of our most creative students,

Nej, hun var en af vores mest kreative studerende,

and as an organizational psychologist, this is the kind of idea that I test.

og som organisationspsykolog, er det den slags ideer, jeg tester.

So I challenged her to get some data.

Så jeg udfordrede hende til at skaffe data.

She goes into a bunch of companies.

Hun undersøger en bunke firmaer.

She has people fill out surveys about how often they procrastinate.

Får folk til at udfylde spørgeskemaer om hvor ofte de laver overspring.

Then she gets their bosses to rate how creative and innovative they are.

Og får cheferne til at vurdere hvor kreative og innovative de er.

And sure enough, the precrastinators like me,

Og ganske rigtigt, forspringspersonerne som mig,

who rush in and do everything early

som skynder sig at lave alt tidligt

are rated as less creative

bliver vurderet som mindre kreative,

than people who procrastinate moderately.

end folk der laver overspringshandlinger i moderat omfang.

So I want to know what happens to the chronic procrastinators.

Så ville jeg vide, hvad der sker med de kroniske overspringspersoner.

She was like, "I don't know. They didn't fill out my survey."

Hun svarede "Det ved jeg ikke. De udfyldte ikke mine spørgeskemaer."

(Laughter)

(Latter)

No, here are our results.

Nej, her er vores resultater.

You actually do see that the people who wait until the last minute

Du ser rent faktisk, at folk der venter til sidste minut

are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas.

har så travlt med at lave ingenting, at de ikke har nogen nye ideer.

And on the flip side, the people who race in

Og modsat, folkene der går i gang med det samme

are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either.

er i en så oppisket, angst stemning, at de heller ikke har originale tanker.

There's a sweet spot where originals seem to live.

Der er et gyldent midterpunkt, hvor originalerne lader til at bo.

Why is this?

Og hvorfor det?

Maybe original people just have bad work habits.

Måske har originalerne bare dårlige arbejdsvaner.

Maybe procrastinating does not cause creativity.

Måske skaber overspringshandlinger ikke kreativitet.

To find out, we designed some experiments.

For at få svaret, skabte vi nogle eksperimenter.

We asked people to generate new business ideas,

Vi bad folk om at generere nye forretningsideer,

and then we get independent readers

og så fik vi uafhængige læsere

to evaluate how creative and useful they are.

til at evaluere hvor kreative og brugbare de var.

And some of them are asked to do the task right away.

Og nogen af dem bedes om at løse opgaven med det samme.

Others we randomly assign to procrastinate

Andre blev vilkårligt tildelt at lave overspringshandlinger,

by dangling Minesweeper in front of them

ved at lokke dem med Minesweeper

for either five or 10 minutes.

i enten fem eller ti minutter.

And sure enough, the moderate procrastinators

Og som forventet, er de moderate overspringspersoner

are 16 percent more creative than the other two groups.

16 procent mere kreative end de to andre grupper.

Now, Minesweeper is awesome, but it's not the driver of the effect,

Altså, Minesweeper er fantastisk, men det er ikke kraften bag effekten,

because if you play the game first before you learn about the task,

for spiller du spillet først inden du kender opgaven,

there's no creativity boost.

styrker det ikke kreativiteten.

It's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem,

Det er først når du ved at du skal arbejde på problemet,

and then you start procrastinating,

og du starter med overspringshandlingerne,

but the task is still active in the back of your mind,

stadig med opgaven aktiv i baghovedet,

that you start to incubate.

at du begynder at ruge på ideerne.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas,

Overspringshandlingerne giver dig tid til at overveje divergerende ideer,

to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

til at tænke ikke-lineært, til at lave uventede spring.

So just as we were finishing these experiments,

Så samtidig med at vi afsluttede eksperimenterne,

I was starting to write a book about originals,

startede jeg på at skrive en bog om originaler,

and I thought, "This is the perfect time to teach myself to procrastinate,

og jeg tænkte: "Det er det perfekte tidspunkt til at lære mig selv at overspringe,

while writing a chapter on procrastination."

imens jeg skriver på et kapitel om overspringning."

So I metaprocrastinated,

Så jeg meta-oversprangshandlede,

and like any self-respecting precrastinator,

og som enhver anden forspringsperson med respekt for dig selv,

I woke up early the next morning

vågnede jeg tidligt næste morgen

and I made a to-do list with steps on how to procrastinate.

og jeg lavede en to-do liste med overspringshandlinger.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

And then I worked diligently

Og så arbejdede jeg flittigt

toward my goal of not making progress toward my goal.

på at nå mit mål om ikke at nå mit mål.

I started writing the procrastination chapter,

Jeg påbegyndte kapitlet om overspringshandlinger,

and one day -- I was halfway through --

og en dag - jeg var halvvejs igennem det -

I literally put it away in mid-sentence

lagde jeg det bogstaveligt talt fra mig midt i en sætning

for months.

i månedsvis.

It was agony.

Det var en pinsel.

But when I came back to it, I had all sorts of new ideas.

Men da jeg vendte tilbage til det, havde jeg alle mulige nye ideer.

As Aaron Sorkin put it,

Som formuleret af Aaron Sorking,

"You call it procrastinating. I call it thinking."

"Du kalder det for overspring. Jeg kalder det at tænke."

And along the way I discovered

Og undervejs opdagede jeg

that a lot of great originals in history were procrastinators.

at en masse store originaler gennem historien var overspringspersoner.

Take Leonardo da Vinci.

Som Leonardo da Vinci for eksempel.

He toiled on and off for 16 years

Han arbejdede on og off i 16 år

on the Mona Lisa.

på Mona Lisa.

He felt like a failure.

Han følte sig som en fiasko.

He wrote as much in his journal.

Det skrev han direkte i sin dagbog.

But some of the diversions he took in optics

Men nogle af sidespringene han lavede indenfor optik

transformed the way that he modeled light

forvandlede måden han modelerede lys på

and made him into a much better painter.

og gjorde ham til en meget bedre maler.

What about Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Hvad med Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The night before the biggest speech of his life,

Natten før den største tale i hans liv,

the March on Washington,

borgerretttighedsmarchen mod Washington,

he was up past 3am, rewriting it.

sad han oppe og omskrev til efter tre.

He's sitting in the audience waiting for his turn to go onstage,

Han sidder blandt publikum og venter på at tale på scenen,

and he is still scribbling notes and crossing out lines.

og stadig skriver han noter og streger sætninger ud.

When he gets onstage, 11 minutes in,

Da han er på scenen, 11 minutter inde,

he leaves his prepared remarks

afviger han fra sine forberedte kommentarer

to utter four words that changed the course of history:

for at udtale fire ord, der ændrede historiens gang.

"I have a dream."

"Jeg har en drøm."

That was not in the script.

Det stod ikke i manuskriptet.

By delaying the task of finalizing the speech until the very last minute,

Ved at udskyde opgaven med at afslutte talen til sidste øjeblik,

he left himself open to the widest range of possible ideas.

lod han sig selv være åben over for flest mulige ideer.

And because the text wasn't set in stone,

Og fordi talen ikke var skrevet i sten,

he had freedom to improvise.

havde han frihed til at improvisere.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity,

At overspringe er en synd når det kommer til produktivitet,

but it can be a virtue for creativity.

men det kan være en dyd for kreativitet.

What you see with a lot of great originals

Det du ser med en masse store originaler

is that they are quick to start but they're slow to finish.

er at de er hurtige til at starte men de er langsomme til at afslutte.

And this is what I missed with Warby Parker.

Og det var det jeg overså med Warby Parker.

When they were dragging their heels for six months,

Da de sneglede sig frem i seks måneder,

I looked at them and said,

så jeg på dem og sagde,

"You know, a lot of other companies are starting to sell glasses online."

"Altså, en masse andre firmaer er begyndt at sælge briller online."

They missed the first-mover advantage.

De gik glip af first mover fordelen.

But what I didn't realize was they were spending all that time

Men det jeg ikke indså var at de brugte al den tid

trying to figure out how to get people

på at finde ud af at hvordan man fik folk

to be comfortable ordering glasses online.

til at være trygge med at bestille briller online.

And it turns out the first-mover advantage is mostly a myth.

Og det viser sig at first mover fordelen mest er en myte.

Look at a classic study of over 50 product categories,

Tag en klassisk undersøgelse af over 50 produktkategorier,

comparing the first movers who created the market

der sammenligner first movere der skabte markedet,

with the improvers who introduced something different and better.

med dem der forbedrede og introducerede noget anderledes og bedre.

What you see is that the first movers had a failure rate of 47 percent,

Det du ser er at first moverne havde en fiasko rate på 47 procent,

compared with only 8 percent for the improvers.

sammenlignet med kun otte procent for dem der forbedrede.

Look at Facebook, waiting to build a social network

Tag Facebook, der ventede med at bygge et socialt netværk

until after Myspace and Friendster.

til efter Myspace og Friendster.

Look at Google, waiting for years after Altavista and Yahoo.

Tag Google, der ventede i årevis efter Altavista og Yahoo.

It's much easier to improve on somebody else's idea

Det er langt lettere at forbedre en andens ide

than it is to create something new from scratch.

end det er at skabe noget nyt fra bunden.

So the lesson I learned is that to be original you don't have to be first.

Så lektien jeg har lært er at for at være original behøver du ikke være først.

You just have to be different and better.

Du skal bare være anderledes og bedre.

But that wasn't the only reason I passed on Warby Parker.

Men det var ikke den eneste grund til at jeg droppede Warby Parker.

They were also full of doubts.

De var også fulde af tvivl.

They had backup plans lined up,

De havde backup planer,

and that made me doubt that they had the courage to be original,

og det fik mig til at tvivle på om de turde være originale,

because I expected that originals would look something like this.

fordi jeg forventede at originaler skulle se nogenlunde sådan her ud.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

Now, on the surface,

Altså. på overfladen,

a lot of original people look confident,

virker en masse originaler selvsikre,

but behind the scenes,

men bag facaden,

they feel the same fear and doubt that the rest of us do.

føler de samme frygt og tvivl som resten af os.

They just manage it differently.

De håndterer det bare anderledes.

Let me show you: this is a depiction

Lad mig vise et eksempel. Dette er en illustration

of how the creative process works for most of us.

af hvordan den kreative process fungere for de fleste af os.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

Now, in my research, I discovered there are two different kinds of doubt.

Igennem min forskning opdagede jeg, at der er to forskellige typer tvivl.

There's self-doubt and idea doubt.

Der er selvtvivl og ide-tvivl.

Self-doubt is paralyzing.

Selvtvivl er lammende.

It leads you to freeze.

Den får dig til at forstene.

But idea doubt is energizing.

Men ide-tvivl skaber energi.

It motivates you to test, to experiment, to refine,

Den motiverer dig til at teste, eksperimentere, raffinere,

just like MLK did.

præcis som MLK gjorde.

And so the key to being original

og derved er nøglen til originalitet

is just a simple thing

blot et simpelt skridt,

of avoiding the leap from step three to step four.

at undgå springet fra trin tre til fire.

Instead of saying, "I'm crap,"

I stedet for at sige, "Jeg stinker",

you say, "The first few drafts are always crap,

siger du, "De første skitser stinker altid,

and I'm just not there yet."

og jeg er bare ikke i mål endnu."

So how do you get there?

Hvordan når du så dertil?

Well, there's a clue, it turns out,

Det viser sig, at der er en ledetråd,

in the Internet browser that you use.

i internet browseren du bruger.

We can predict your job performance and your commitment

Vi kan forudsige din præstation på jobbet og din forpligtelse

just by knowing what web browser you use.

kun ud fra at vide hvilken web browser du bruger.

Now, some of you are not going to like the results of this study --

Og nogen af jer vil ikke kunne lide resultaterne af undersøgelsen.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

But there is good evidence that Firefox and Chrome users

Men der er gode beviser for af Firefox og Chrome brugere

significantly outperform Internet Explorer and Safari users.

klart overgår Internet Explorer og Safari brugere.

Yes.

Ja.

(Applause)

(Applaus)

They also stay in their jobs 15 percent longer, by the way.

De bliver forresten også i deres job 15 procent længere.

Why? It's not a technical advantage.

Hvorfor? Det er ikke en teknisk fordel.

The four browser groups on average have similar typing speed

De fire browser grupper har i gennemsnit ens tastehastighed

and they also have similar levels of computer knowledge.

og de har også samme niveau af computerfærdigheder.

It's about how you got the browser.

Det handler om hvordan du fik browseren.

Because if you use Internet Explorer or Safari,

Bruger du Internet Explorer eller Safari,

those came preinstalled on your computer,

var de forinstallerede på din computer,

and you accepted the default option that was handed to you.

og du accepterede standardvalget givet dig.

If you wanted Firefox or Chrome, you had to doubt the default

Ville du have Firefox eller Chrome, måtte du tvivle på forinstalleringen

and ask, is there a different option out there,

og spørge, er der et andet valg derude,

and then be a little resourceful and download a new browser.

og så være lidt ressourcestærk og downloade en ny browser.

So people hear about this study and they're like,

Folk hører så om undersøgelsen og tænker,

"Great, if I want to get better at my job, I just need to upgrade my browser?"

"Super, hvis jeg vil blive bedre til mit job, skal jeg bare opgraderer min browser?"

(Laughter)

(Latter)

No, it's about being the kind of person

Nej, det handler om at være typen,

who takes the initiative to doubt the default

der tager initiativet til at tvivle på standardindstillingen

and look for a better option.

og se efter et bedre valg.

And if you do that well,

Og gør du så det,

you will open yourself up to the opposite of déjà vu.

så åbner du op for det modsatte at déja vu.

There's a name for it. It's called vuja de.

Det kalder man vuja de.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

Vuja de is when you look at something you've seen many times before

Vuja de, er når du ser på noget du har set mange gange før

and all of a sudden see it with fresh eyes.

og pludselig ser det med friske øjne.

It's a screenwriter who looks at a movie script

Det er tekstforfatteren, der ser på et filmmanuskript,

that can't get the green light for more than half a century.

der ikke er blevet godkendt i mere end et halvt århundrede.

In every past version, the main character has been an evil queen.

I alle tidligere udgaver, har hovedpersonen være en ond dronning.

But Jennifer Lee starts to question whether that makes sense.

Men Jennifer Lee begynder at stille spørgsmålstegn ved logikken i det.

She rewrites the first act,

Hun omskriver første akt,

reinvents the villain as a tortured hero

genopfinder skurken som en plaget helt

and Frozen becomes the most successful animated movie ever.

og Frozen bliver den mest successfulde animerede film nogensinde.

So there's a simple message from this story.

Der er et simpelt budskab i i denne historie.

When you feel doubt, don't let it go.

Når du er i tvivl, så lad det ske.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

What about fear?

Hvad med frygt?

Originals feel fear, too.

Originaler føler også frygt.

They're afraid of failing,

De er bange for at fejle,

but what sets them apart from the rest of us

men det der adskiller dem fra os andre,

is that they're even more afraid of failing to try.

er at de frygter, ikke at forsøge endnu mere.

They know you can fail by starting a business that goes bankrupt

De ved, du kan fejle ved at startet et firma der går fallit,

or by failing to start a business at all.

eller ved slet ikke at starte et firma.

They know that in the long run, our biggest regrets are not our actions

De ved at i det lange løb, er det ikke vores handlinger vi fortryder,

but our inactions.

men gangene vi ikke handlede.

The things we wish we could redo, if you look at the science,

Det vi ønsker vi kunne gøre om, hvis du ser på videnskaben,

are the chances not taken.

er chancerne der ikke blev taget.

Elon Musk told me recently, he didn't expect Tesla to succeed.

Elon Musk fortalte mig for nyligt, han ikke regnede med at Tesla ville lykkes.

He was sure the first few SpaceX launches

Han var sikker på at SpaceXs første opsendelser

would fail to make it to orbit, let alone get back,

ikke vil nå i omløb, eller overhovedet nå tilbage,

but it was too important not to try.

men det var for vigtigt til ikke at forsøge.

And for so many of us, when we have an important idea,

Og som for så mange af os, når vi har en vigtig ide,

we don't bother to try.

forsøger vi ikke engang.

But I have some good news for you.

Men der er godt nyt.

You are not going to get judged on your bad ideas.

Du vil ikke blive bedømt på dine dårlige ideer.

A lot of people think they will.

Det tror mange.

If you look across industries

Hvis du kigger på forskellige brancher

and ask people about their biggest idea, their most important suggestion,

og spørger folk om deres største ideer, deres vigtigste forslag.

85 percent of them stayed silent instead of speaking up.

Så sagde 85 procent ikke noget.

They were afraid of embarrassing themselves, of looking stupid.

De var bange for at gøre sig til grin, for at se dumme ud.

But guess what? Originals have lots and lots of bad ideas,

Men ved I hvad? Originaler får masser af dårlige ideer,

tons of them, in fact.

tonsvis, faktisk.

Take the guy who invented this.

Tag nu for eksempel fyren der opfandt den her.

Do you care that he came up with a talking doll so creepy

Tager I jer af at han opfandt en talende dukke, så uhyggelig

that it scared not only kids but adults, too?

at den skræmte både børn og voksne?

No. You celebrate Thomas Edison for pioneering the light bulb.

Nej. I hædrer Thomas Edison for opfindelsen af lyspæren.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

If you look across fields,

Ser vi på tværs af brancher,

the greatest originals are the ones who fail the most,

er de største originaler dem der fejlede mest,

because they're the ones who try the most.

fordi de også forsøgte mest.

Take classical composers, the best of the best.

Tag for eksempel klassiske komponister, de bedste af de bedste.

Why do some of them get more pages in encyclopedias than others

Hvorfor får nogle af dem flere sider i leksikonerne end andre

and also have their compositions rerecorded more times?

og får deres kompositioner genindspillet oftere?

One of the best predictors

En af de bedste indikatorer

is the sheer volume of compositions that they generate.

er antallet af kompositioner de har genereret.

The more output you churn out, the more variety you get

Jo mere du producerer, jo mere variation får du

and the better your chances of stumbling on something truly original.

og jo bedre er dine chancer for at falde over noget helt originalt.

Even the three icons of classical music -- Bach, Beethoven, Mozart --

Selv de tre ikoner indenfor klassisk musik - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart -

had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions

måtte generere flere hundreder af kompositioner

to come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces.

for at skabe et meget mindre antal mesterstykker.

Now, you may be wondering,

Og så undrer du dig måske,

how did this guy become great without doing a whole lot?

hvordan blev den der fyr stor uden at lave specielt meget?

I don't know how Wagner pulled that off.

Jeg ved ikke hvordan Wagner slap afsted med det.

But for most of us, if we want to be more original,

Men for de fleste af os, hvis vi vil være mere originale,

we have to generate more ideas.

bliver vi nødt til at generere flere ideer.

The Warby Parker founders, when they were trying to name their company,

Da grundlæggerne af Warby Parker skulle navngive deres firma,

they needed something sophisticated, unique, with no negative associations

havde de brug for noget sofistikeret, unikt, uden negative associationer

to build a retail brand,

til at bygge deres forhandler brand,

and they tested over 2,000 possibilities

og de testede over 2000 muligheder

before they finally put together

inden de endelig satte

Warby and Parker.

Warby og Parker sammen.

So if you put all this together, what you see is that originals

Så lægger du alt dette sammen, vil du se at originaler

are not that different from the rest of us.

ikke er så anderledes end resten af os.

They feel fear and doubt. They procrastinate.

De føler frygt og tvivl. De overspringer.

They have bad ideas.

De får dårlige ideer.

And sometimes, it's not in spite of those qualities but because of them

Og til tider, er det ikke til trods for de kvaliteter men på grund af dem

that they succeed.

at de lykkes.

So when you see those things, don't make the same mistake I did.

Så når du ser disse ting, så lav ikke same fejl som jeg gjorde.

Don't write them off.

Affærdig dem ikke.

And when that's you, don't count yourself out either.

Og når det er dig selv, så affærdig heller ikke dig selv.

Know that being quick to start but slow to finish

Vid at det at være en hurtig starter men langsom afslutter

can boost your creativity,

kan styrke din kreativitet,

that you can motivate yourself by doubting your ideas

at du kan motivere dig selv ved at tvivle på dine ideer

and embracing the fear of failing to try,

og ved at gribe angsten for at ikke forsøge,

and that you need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.

og at du behøver en masse dårlige ideer for at få et par gode.

Look, being original is not easy,

At være original er ikke let,

but I have no doubt about this:

men jeg er helt sikker på dette:

it's the best way to improve the world around us.

Det er den bedste måde at forbedre verden omkring os.

Thank you.

Tak.

(Applause)

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